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Evolutionary principles underlying neuron subtype encoding and diversification in animals

2026-04-14

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Animals harbor a diversity of terminally differentiated cell types. This cell type diversity is particularly spectacular in the nervous system. While the shared evolutionary origin of the bilaterian neuron has been increasingly supported, it remains poorly understood when the first neuron diversified into the many types present in extant lineages and what molecular mechanisms accompanied this neuron diversificatio...

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Literature Corpus work: cbc4ac34-41b2-5215-9b48-fdded3633f2d
DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.13.718258

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